Posts Tagged ‘Thomas B. Fordham Institute’

OAKLAND, Calif. – Last year wasn’t a good year for Common Core, and the myth-makers are already hard at work publishing some new spin, but first let’s review what we’ve learned over the past five years. Common Core national standards are:Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A favorite refrain of Common Core advocates is that their opponents are peddling “misinformation.” Well Core fans are quite adept at doing the same thing, and as a new Washington Post article reinforces, no case of this is more egregious than pretending that Core adoption was supposed to be “state-led” and “voluntary,” and federal coercion was just unwanted Obama administration interference.Read More »

WASHINGTON, DC. – I really shouldn’t have to write this anymore, because the basic facts should keep anyone from saying that state adoption of the Common Core was “absolutely voluntary.” Yet Chester Finn, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, has made just this proclamation…again.Read More »

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Sen. Brian Nieves will be missed in the Senate. This pit bull couldn’t understand why Michael Brickman would get on a plane and fly from Washington, DC to Jefferson City, Missouri to testify in favor of Common Core.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The policy experts at the conservative-ish Thomas B. Fordham Institute are genuinely perplexed over why the American people are so hostile to the Common Core experiment, which they have helped promote.Read More »

MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee Public Schools, which in recent years has been struggling to balance its budget by laying off teachers and cancelling student programs, has found a tool to deal with its immediate financial problems.Read More »

FAIRBORN, Ohio – Last Thursday, the Fairborn City school board voted down a resolution that would have urged Ohio officials to postpone the implementation of the new Common Core learning standards that are set to take full effect in the 2014-15 school year.Read More »

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – (DropoutNation.net) editor (RiShawn Biddle) originally planned to give his thoughts on Thomas B. Fordham Institute research czar Mike Petrilli’s latest book on diverse school, and his continued (and wrongheaded) move to join forces with ivory-tower civil rights activists such as Richard Kahlenberg for pushing socioeconomic integration as school reform.Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In early 2011, producers for the radio program This American Life caused a brief media sensation when they announced they had discovered the original formula for Coca-Cola.Read More »

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – A provision in Illinois’ 2011 education reform law requires all newly elected school board members to receive training “in areas including education, labor law (and) financial oversight,” reports EdWeek.org.Read More »